The Sun. — London, England, 1810-10-19 00:00:00

t.l7‘; plaee after the debilitation, hi; Majc.'7,ty was , oreter teti from prosecuting the operations which 'he !,ati p:anned, and the signal of recal was therefore thrown nut. General Stuart wished to take advan tage ot this circumstance to surprise our troops; but 'executed their retreat %vial so much abinty and order, , hat they were not molested even duo log their embarkation. This attack, which has sprea,: . terror Ihrougl. the Island of Sicily, has cost u. only a few missing soldiers, whom the calm did not per mit us to return to look 101 . in the coast. I'he .lius kh have lost a great number ot nwn, including two Otfirws of distinction. The courage and gallantr'y displayed by t rte Neapolitans on this otzastuu is anovc all praise. • AXIIIV ED-1 Cadiz, t Uublin, 2 ►vattrturd. UPS=i C. tLIZ, i i. 1413011, t DuDill), ‘VatCliUld. Consols PKIC r. M . STOCKS THIS DAY Ar TWXL.VE O'CLOCK. 66i 1 I Red. Ann. 65 Omn. - h ;, b U N. SOLEM QUIS UICiRE FALSOFI'..AUDEAT? U LY 1) O A, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1810: We I.,ave just received the follywitig accuunt from `ti indsov The Princess AMEI.IA . was alive at 'eleven o'clock, but in such a stale ai not to leave any hope that hLr Royal 1 - 11,;liness %Ail! son; iwe this day. This morning a Cadiz Mail arrived : by it we have rc.ceived Papers to the Bth and though their con teats do not confirm the report which ‘ketneuttutied yesterday, of a second battle having been fought in Portugal, yet they are of .a very sathfactory natuit• General O'l)aNNeL has, it appears, obtained some very important advatitaes over the French, and it is stated, though lint in an official manner, that the important Fortress of Gerona has been retaken by tile Spaniauls. With respect to the report of the 'Dinh! the 2,i inst. there certainly was a rumour of that kind, founded upon the authority of the :Tvlost..:r ct a Portuguese vessel, who arrived at Ca diz Irom Lisbon. Our reau'ers will see with plea sure that the (;cartes have at length assembled. We have extracted an account or the proceedings of Leff first sicun6s. We ttuderitand that ate follow- ing subjects are immediately to come under their CUnsicici - ation : Ist. 'I ii e.taolish Tient ofa permanent Government during the at)::ence ui the King, and the suk.ces6iun to the 2cliy, Ine Int:mt ) ri,e Press. 3aiy, Kedreas 6ricVailCCS• 4tlily, IQ We l_ololllt3 Uur reJuer, will observe that thoie topics so im portant and interesting in . theinselves, were toicibly recommended to the Supreme' Central Junta. of Spin', by the Aliiiquis.WeLLELEr. That enlighten _ ed Nobleman, when he was in Spai , n, attar 'advising. thew to nominate a Council of Regency, to-exercise the executive power till the Cortes should be as sembled, urged the speedy assemblage of that body, and proposed that the same act ut. the Junta by which the Regency should :be appointed, and the Cortes eatled,,shoUld contain . the'principal articles of t‘tdr6's . of gievatices;tbrreaion of abuses, and relief of exaations in Spain and the Indies ; and also the heath of such_concessiuns to the Colonis as should fully secure to them a due share in the Represetna ttve-Body of the Spanish Empire; and finally, that no time shouitl be lost in entering. upon the discus bion_and arrangement of these important matters. Yesterday morning his MAJESTY, the Dukes of YOkti, CAMBHIDGE, and CUMBERLAND, Princesses AUGU:,TA and SOPHiA, took their usual morning's siring in Wiod,or Great Palk, till halt-past twelOe o'clock. The Royal Party wris accompanied by Lord AHD EN, Lady THYNNE, and COl. TAYLOR. It appears by the following extras, that the arti cles to - ,vhich we have just referred, in cases where they•had hen sold, and the account closed, prior to the offensive regulations of this Government, will be liable to retrosOeetive duties.—" We are afraid," says a Corre‘pondent, " that we shall be obliged to ply the impost of 4U per• cent. on ail Colonial pro duce, whether of not any part of it, or the whole, were sold previous to the Orders in Council." We lament to state the death of Li Ut.•General CRAUFURD, who died at Abrantes towards the end of September. Tice letters announcing his death have not come to the hands of his family, but sub-. fiequent letters trout his Aides-de-Camp, stating the ceremony of his funeral at Abrantes, with military honours, and referring to their former letters for an Account of his last illness, through the fatigue he, had experienced, were received with the dispatches from Lord WELLINGTON. He was a most gallant Officer, and his loss will be severely lamented. Muslc.---The grand Musical Festival at Derby, conciuded on Thursday evening. The vocal de partment was. supported by CATALANI, Mrs. BI ANCHI, BARTLEMAN, GOSS, and HARRISON, all of whom exerted their powers with great success.---' CRAMER led, and GazAToREx presided at the organ. .ASHE, PETRIDV,S, HOLMES, and LINDLEY, con tributed their powers; and the whole formed a de licious treat. The festival throughout was attended by a splendid and crowded assemblage, and the, re. ceipts, including donations from the principal Per lorrners, as well as the collectioa Church, ainounted to a couiiderable sum. NAVAL NEWS. FALmourx, OCT. 16.---This morning arrived Cie Noctun packet, Capt. VINICOMBE, with Mails from Cadiz, which she left on the inst. rin which day arrived there a Poriuguese brig train Lisbon, in four days ; the Captain teported and made oath to the same, bef,re Mr. ARCHDEACON, the British Vice-Consul at Cadiz, that a second battle had taken place between the French armies under MAssENA, JuNuT, &e. and the combined Bliti,ll and Portu guese tro,ipq, und,q- Lord WELLINGTON, in winch the former were de;eak2.l with tile loss of 20,00,0 incti thzu the inhabitants of Lisbon were in the highest spirits possibLf, and preparations were making fur a very splendid illumination On the same night she left that place ; the passengers were' acquainted that this attida‘it was made. The Tyrian brig, ut to guns, LeutADAvms, is arrived from Curunna, which she left on the 9th inst.; it was there reported that the battle un the 4ontlegu remained and continued tor five days; and that on the last day the French were completely routed„leaving immense number killed, and about 10,000 taken prisoners and wounded. It ap pears that a general adion his been fought with the armies under General O'DosNLitir., and the French army under M'IIoNALD ; the lattei was defeated with an immense slanahter : GeOCrai O'DONNELL was wounded in the kg, cud it was feared am putation would be necessary. Sailed his Majesty's blips Firm and licizuk on a cruize. ISLANDS or SCILLY, Oct. 7.—Came iu the-Spanish brig, p,ostra Isade la Dolor as, ANTONIA JANJUMGU, flow Cadiz, ith Spanish wool, bound to Lon don; also the ship Quaker of London, JAMES CUS-. TINE, master ; from Trinidad with colonial pro duce, bound to London ; the brig Retrieve of Boston, GIEItISH, master ; from New Orleans, laden with cotton, log wood, and tobacco, to Gottenburgb, captured by the. Bagatelle Fiend' privateer, and re captured by his Majesty's ship Goldfinch,' Captain ADDEZLY. g.—Carne in the Spanish ship St. Anna, BARNARD() Gemzz, iroster, form the Havannah ; with sugar and lu.libo, bound to Plymouth, put under guar suture. arrived the Dolphin Revenue cruizer, CARTER' master, and several coasting vessels. Saiied Majesty's frigate Rhin, and Favourite and Peacock sloops of war on a cruize. PLY* OUTH ) OCT. 17.—The Hero privateer, be longing to this port, has detained and sent in here the Spanish brig Cureo 'Montego, from Bilboa, m.ith a cargo. Arrived the Wolf, Revenue cutter, from a cruize ; the Hero privateer, froin a crutze ; the Morning Star cartel, Captain Lavis, from Morlaix ; t he Hope, Levet, ftorn Lon don ; the Riga Merchant, Kush, from Sunderland; the Po, Mason, truin Wales ; Rebecca, henna; and Eliza Farquhar, Lennox, from tiverpooi. Arrived a man of war brig, said to be the Cheerly, , from Lisbon ; but we have not been able to ascer tain whether she has brought dispatches, or any news of importance from Portugal. Arrived a French schooner, laden with timber, prize to the Cadmus sloO p .of war. Arrived this afternoon a Spanish ship of 74 gins,• but we have not been able to learn her raiwasr, spr any particulars. " bailed the !Poll' Revenue cutter on a cruize. PORTSMOUTH, • OCT. 18.. , --C4ITIe in this day the Attentive gun-brig from the West Indies; and his Majesty's ship kylla, with four sail ot transport flom Lisbon. Arrived his Majesty's ship Dominica from Hali fax; Donegal and Revenge from a cruize off Cher bourg!) ; his Majesty's ships Thracian and Sophia, from a cruize ; Barn Well, Good Intent, HUNTER ; New Concord, RICHARDSON, from Sunder land ; General Doyle, ----, 4Vew Rope, ---, Oratho, TOZER, from Guernsey ; Friends, WOOL RIDGE, from Jersey; Pcesident, STRICKLAND ; and Unity, -, from Waterford. Sailed the Phipps schooner on a cruize ; Friends; HICKS; Unity, MONDAY ; Four Friends, OAK, fat; London ; Borough, JuDD ; , ANDERSON, for Sunderland ; Hannah, BROOKS ; and George and Margaret, TuomysoN, for Shields. Came in this afternoon the ship Edward, HOAR master, from New fork bound to London, laden with tobacco, flour, &c. SHEERNESS, OCT. 18.—Came down from Long Reach, and anchored at the Great Nore, his Majes ty's ship Agincourt. Sailed his Majesty's ship Partridge Arrived the Pigmy cutter. DEAL, Oc•r. 18.--At day-break this morning the Racer gun-brig fell in with off the Goodwin Sands, three French privateers, which she chased off the coast, but the wind•being very strong froth the west there was no chance of capturing them. Sir linwAttp PELLEW, with about 10'sail of the, line, is brought up off the North Foreland porn off Fluibing they will come into the DUWDS next cbt). C.IDIZ 111,11 L. CADIZ, Oct. 7.—By the public paper's you will learn that things are tp.ing on well here. We have received very favourable accounts of the happy connneiteement of the operations of the combined army in Pot tug:il, on the 27th ; and there is even a repprt in circulation to-day, of its having pro.duced a complete and dectsive victory, where the Vreilch are - reported to have lost 20,000 men ; but this, you will ohs:A - ye, rests on the ipso dixit of a Portuguese boatman. In older that the Public may not be deprived of the last intelligence received from Catalonia, we ex tra& the p irticular correspondence received yester day, which is as follows : " General O'DONNEL has beaten the enemy in imas and its vicinity ; the result of the expedi tion has been the taking prisoner General SHUART, 40 officers, 1800 prisoners, and 10 pieces of artil lery, wok all the provisions and warlike stores, NVIIiCII number ofprisoners has arrived at Tarragona in 76 boats, with all the booty taken from the ene my. General O'Dotsrtsm., who was wounded in the foot by a musket ball, has likewise arrived at Tarragona." According to other letters the garrison of Gerona been surprised, and its fortifications destroyed. It nbt appearing desirable to the General in Ci,ief to m tintain himself in it, he abandoned it, carrying off the prisoners which he made upon his entrance. This last information we do not give as official. In the vicinity of the Ebro, Baron de LABARRE has made 250 prisoners, who marched on the 20th of last month for bens. liOr VILLACAMPA, according to his official re port to the said LABAaRE, has defeated the French in 114mila, taking 500 prisoners, 6000 head of cdttle, and tour arrobas of silver. The 'evemy who marched out of Reus to the number of. GuOu men, are surrounded in Cerrera, and if they Wish to march to Barcelona, must fight another battle. LISBON, SEPT. 29.—We have this moment re ceived very satisfaCtork intelligence from our artily, which we will not delay 'giving to the public, at, though we have not received the official details, which we will give immediately that, they arrive. On the 7th, the enemy attacked in force the positions of our army; the attack lasted from half past four in the morning till five in the evening. The enemy was constantly driven back with im mense loss; private letters state it to be Gono killed or wounded, whilst ours and that of the English scarcely amounts to 80(:). The General of brigade, SIMON, was taken prisoner. On the following day a repetition of the attack was hoped fur with equal or great success. The condua of the Portuguese has drawn forth the highest eulogiums from our Alhes. CORTES. SEPr. 28..--At ten o'clock the sitting opened. The powers of a deputy from La Mancha, were presented, and immediately referred to the proper Committee. Yr►z DB CAsTRO produced a Me moir of Don J. DB 06MA, Lieutenant•Colonet II) the Royal corps Artillery, the object of which is .to shew the means and mode of raising an army of observation, composed of 120,000 men, which should be called " the Patriot Artny ;" and pro curing sixty millions to cloath, arm, and maintain it, during the time of its instruction. The said memoir was ordered to be referred to the Committee of War. Ihnuuna, a Deputy of Estremadura immediately rose, and demanded that the Sitting should form a Secret Committee, since he bad to propose mat ters of the utmost importance and urgency, which required secrecy. The question whether the sitting was to be secret or not came now under discussion. LEGANA 'said, that all subjeas relative to the war ought not to be publicly discussed. GOLFEN supported the motion; he said, thOugh he felt much concerned to exclude the public at the very opening of their sittings, but he knew that the subjea to be proposed required both secrecy and urgency .; that the evils which afflieted our armies, ariked.tirost imperiously for prompt remedies ; that he had been an eye-witness of the vexations sus tained by our soldiers, of their stale of starvation, their nakedness, and added, that if the sitting were not to be secret, he should not hesitate publicly to state the ,objeet of his motion. At the etid of a very animated discussion, in which several Deputies took a share, the original motion was carried. • On this occasion, QURISLANO proposed, that in order to avoid in future similar discussions, and the inconvenience arising from it to the public, the sit- tugs should always be commenced with the doors stn, and that they shodld be opened after such waiters as required igcrecy were disposed of. Till proposition was aecck.l to, and the House cle• - a` 4 of strangers. The Deputies then continued the sittings till 'i ll ' at night. SrPr. 29.—A little after ten, the sittings cc 4/ ' menced. The Chiefs of the Royal Guards, tado CASTEL FLORID°, CASTELA, and Carsiattss presented- themselves to take the oaths, which the/ did, kneeling down on a cushion. INFANTAD° livered a short speech, in which he congratulate d 111 . : Cortes on their gl or io us i nsta ll at i on , an d expres se the anxious desire of the troops of the Royal g° tl ' 4 : hold to deserve, still more an d more , espec i a lly at t, ll . 1)- present time, th e g o o.: o pi n i on w hi c h t h e y . 11 3 -• t ° tained, and constantly preserved, frutri - atici" times. CUPRUANY ascended the tribune, and read in 3 very impressive manner a paper, conceived in t he following terms :--. " In vain shall we sacrifice our repose, our nay cur lives, if it were required, did we not ac: company the discharge of the several duties irnpos e° on us by the honourable situation we hold, by I/ generous, voluntary, and disinterested ad, by which we may really deserve the title of Falun of 11 1 Colvery. We must renounce all idea o f persor 9 advantage, and shut the door against all hopes"' against our own desires. I accordingly propose to this august Congress my opinion, in the folloWi'l form of a decree. t " That it shall n o t b e l aw f u l f or any D ep uties - o Members of the Cortes, whether they compose the present' Congress or may be appointed hereafter' during the time they perform the funelions of Dlti ties, and within two years after, to solicit or. ac ' cept, either for himself or any other person, 34 employ, pension, distin6tion, or favour, from the Executive Government, p rov i s i ona ll y appo ieled' to be hereafter constituted, of whatever nam e ° description." He lastly demanded that [this decree shou ld t communicated to the Rege nc y, i n or d er t h a t it tfligl be made known to th e provinces of the Spa fiii 5 Empire for their satisfaction, and to the world t large as a matter of admiration. HUERTA immediately r ose an d sa id, th e , . .1e hod entertained the same idea, and a6tually preperea t° form of a decree, which on 'the preceding day I ..A ' communicated to CAPMANY. Th e l a tt er produe' thereupon the project of a decree, alluded t 0 1)1 HVERTA, which being read wa s f oun d to be 121° ' - , rigorous and severe than that of CAP MANY. ter was therefore put to the vote, and passed by a Coll ; siderable majority, with the addition of this claus e ' excepting such employs as are obtained by senio rilli or granted for notorious extraordinary services f — a dered to the country, and which, in the estitra ti° of the Cortes, shall deserve an extraordinary re' ward. This decree had hardly been sanaio" ► when Heeterno rose, and said, in an audible Y °iCei yet without addressi n g hi mse lf to any partl1 lAr 1 person, that all this was n u ll an d vo id ; it WI 5 the result of a tumultuary proceeding... He was called to order by Peeez DE Ch. 511(4 and explained. The PRESIDENT then tou c h e d th e " bell, e t put the question to th e vo t e , w h et h er t he 1 01 . bition to obtain employ ought to be extended to r' year after the performa nce o f th e f unc ti on s 01 9 e.. puties shall have ceased. On this occasion it was determined that the Pe: 0 puties ought to give their or d er b y say i ng , in a" 30 ' dible voice, yes, or no. The q uest i on pu t by c , President was decided in th e affirtnatiee by a riority of e t to 41. The Sitti ng was c l use d at e, CO in the afternoon. hre a SEPT. 30.—This day' s secre t s itti ng was res° ig into a Committee of the wh o l e C ongress . About o'clock the Duke of ORLEANS arrived on horse b j, in the uniform of a Captain-General. He eot er be e the portico adjoining the S ess i on -h a ll, where continued about an hour, till some of the Ddin it ' . arrived, and had a conference with his Hight' e ; which lasted about fi v e m i nuteQ , whey , the 9° , 0 re-mounted his horse and returned to Cadiz. s , Congress rose at half past thr ee o ' c l oc k i n the a fte r noon. SATURDAY, OCT. 6.—The sittings of the 2d be .: gan at half past tO, A. M. and continued in a manner till a quarter before 2, when it was ( n liere. to be cleared. The following persons were adnli tt to take their oaths :—The Deacon of the C 0 0 6 ,1 1 ,, Castile, and that of th e I n dies ; t h e D eaco n of 'J ders, and that b e lon g i n g t o th e S tate; t h e C3P tao Generals of the fleet, and of various departale ijtii the Intendants of the army and marines. Sotne of the foregoing G en tl emen a ddress° a h ig e - , Majesty, in whos e na me th e President of the C°r t replied.—During the whole of the sitting, only w its , concerned the Americas formed the subjea of aiy cussiun. ~. • • As th '"liest t "Di, w 4) St ate E nv( Patches are (latet. S k _eob 1 4.. t 6 ad tto nd 11 tain st t !s everal 4,401 t em , qu: Ih t l e re th N a rs t hat k lt ,(1114 . 1 be t:. 411 b end er; 'l 3 e fitso, rat tit, il tfor 4 131," ao 4(114 for( I: oi es (;:81)°11. \% ‘711 41- :ee , .. 1)a a 'l6b